La Vie en Noir, by La Merde

La Vie en Noir

by La Merde

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1.	Voor ons Zielezaligheid 01:58	buy track
2.	Le Miroir 02:11	buy track
3.	Under a Black Sun 04:03	buy track
4.	Waar de Eerste Sterren Beven 02:56	buy track
5.	Wading Through Black Waves 04:16	buy track
6.	LITL 01:57	buy track
7.	Trompeter 04:07	buy track
8.	Am Rande der Nacht 02:33	buy track
9.	La Vie en Noir 04:44 video	buy track
10.	A Flower That Once Has Bloomed Forever Dies 02:18	buy track
11.	Dead Among the Dead 03:51	buy track
12.	Het Gladde Mom der Dood 08:04	buy track

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Hailing from Belgium, LA MERDE have been blending classic neofolk with industrial electronics since 2018. LA MERDE combines fact and fiction in an anachronistic collage of the past into a contemporary creation of sound and image. They are storytellers in an abstract sense, conjuring an aural vision, both real and imagined, of our past, present, and future. By wielding a DIY ethos and using a wide range of instruments, they've created a sound that is both formed from soil yet otherworldly.

With tragedy and misery as the guiding principle, LA MERDE guide you through the eternal collapse of the world. As of 2021, they've released sought-after tapes and joined the stage with the esteemed likes of Rome, Awen, and By The Spirits. And now arrives La Vie en Noir, LA MERDE's debut full-length. Both consolidating and eclipsing those prized short-length predecessors, La Vie en Noir lays bare a sumptuous soundscape that spans autumnal splendor and simmering tension, bitter repose and stifled violence. Each of the 43-minute album's dozen songs offers its own unique snapshot, and the duo thread all of it together with unified purpose and poignant dynamics. In short, it's everything - and more - a long-form LA MERDE recording has promised to be, brimming with a dark gorgeousness that's engrossing to the very end.

While neofolk and classic industrial seem like strange bedfellows for SIGNAL REX, the label dutifully seeks darkness in its forms. LA MERDE begin their Thelemic march with La Vie en Noir - love under will, and love is the law!

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released November 5, 2021

Art/Layout by Carl Mithralión Praya-dubia - (theinnermithraeum.wordpress.com)

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